unnerving

Example Sentences

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Performing a comedy routine based on her experience was unnerving, she says, as she was scared to be vulnerable about her mistakes and risk being called a fool by the audience.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

That is another unnerving parallel between today and the dot-com era, but, as Sosnick pointed out, there are important differences as well.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

The Humboldt County Office of Elections made an unnerving discovery Monday — a stack of 596 sealed ballots from the most recent election left at the bottom of a locked voting drop box.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

And long before Elon Musk put his brilliant, unnerving innovator’s creed to work, a different industry pioneer dragged the world’s entire manufacturing sector into the era of mass production, creating shock waves again and again.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

But what was truly unnerving was that the people around her were not speaking any language she’d ever heard before.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff